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WSU Planetarium: 5000 Eyes

Sloan Hall, 305 NE Spokane Street, Pullman, WA 99163
The WSU Planetarium is in Sloan Hall 231.
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A stunning new documentary film featuring recent discoveries from the Department of Energy’s Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), an instrument on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at NOIRLab’s Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), has been released and is free to download to planetariums worldwide. 5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI is a new feature-length planetarium show created in collaboration with DESI’s consortium of worldwide collaborators, a dedicated group of scientists and engineers who are producing the most complete map of our universe.

About the event

A docent will point out night sky highlights and upcoming astronomical events. This is followed by a fulldome video presentation.

The film “5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI” explores a project by the US national observatory, NOIRLAB, to explore what is known as dark energy, the mysterious tendency for the universe to accelerate its expansion over time. A special purpose instrument, DESI (Dark Energy Survey Instrument), was built to provide astronomers with data on thousands of distant galaxies.

Contact

Guy Worthey gworthey@wsu.edu